“My late father considered the Bible the inerrant Word of God ghostwritten by a single privileged eyewitness from creation to revelation. I explained, no, it was actually a lost and found scrapbook riddled with time gaps, savage violence and contradictory accounts. And yet...”
Peter Ho Davies’s novel, “A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself,” tells the story of one family’s beginnings to show what to expect when you’re raising a real human being.
A history of early medicine, a medieval astronomer’s adventures and an exploration of wood’s importance in human history all look back to eras long before the internet.
“Himalaya: A Human History,” by Ed Douglas, a journalist and climber, unfolds the story of the world’s highest mountain range and its equally outsize impact on mankind.
A contentious publishing experience left Laymon unsatisfied with his 2013 collection, “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America.” Now he’s back with Take 2.
In his autobiography, “I Came as a Shadow,” Thompson recalls his childhood in segregated Washington, D.C., and his decades as both an athletic and a cultural force.